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Canada adventure holidays: The Yukon is wild heaven
Yukon :: OK :: USA | 2 months ago
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The bartender dropped ice into my whisky. 'Would you like a toe in that?' he winked. 'Then go see Captain Ed...' Sitting in the Dawson City saloon was an elderly gentleman sporting a jaunty sailor's hat and clutching a small chest...Since then, fresh
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Alaskan who sped past Canadian border guards pleads guilty in Yukon court
Whitehorse :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Yukon An Anchorage man who blew past the border into Canada on the Alaska Highway at Beaver Creek, Yukon, and evaded the police for nearly 250 miles has pleaded guilty in territorial court. Jason Echeverri appeared in a Whitehorse court Wednesday and
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Contango ORE Announces Results of 2012 Exploration Program
Ore :: Nigeria | 5 months ago
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announced today the preliminary results on a portion of its 2012 exploration program at its approximately 726,000-acre Tetlin gold-copper project in east-central Alaska. Approximately 675,000 acres of the project are fee-simple lands leased from the
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Historic convoy of military vehicles rolls into Palmer
Michigan City :: IN :: USA | 9 months ago
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Alaska Highway Convoy and scouted the route with her husband, Jeff, last year. "The 70th anniversary of the Alaska Highway was a natural pick." Commonly known as the "Alcan," the highway was constructed by the military over in a matter of months in
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What You Need to Know to Travel the Alaska Highway
Whitehorse :: Canada | 10 months ago
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What you will see are snow-covered mountains, spruce forests, wildflowers, tundra and eagles, bears, caribou, moose and even the occasional bison grazing along the side of the road. The Alaska Highway is the legendary road of the north, Syd Cannings,
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With Warming, Peril Underlies Road to Alaska
Fairbanks :: AK :: USA | 10 months ago
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The Alaska Highway, built in haste during World War II, is facing big challenges, including the effects of climate change on the permafrost that much of the road was built on. Japan had just destroyed much of the Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. Alaska
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Tiny northern B.C. town devastated by record flooding
Vancouver :: Canada | 11 months ago
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Flooding has devastated the tiny First Nations community of Lower Post, in northwest B.C. near the Yukon border. Most residents in the community of just over 300 were evacuated in two groups over the weekend after heavy rain and melting snow pushed
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Food scarce in Yukon towns cut off by flooding
Yukon :: OK :: USA | 11 months ago
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Story Yukoners across the territory are grappling with food shortages after mudslides and washouts along the Alaska Highway, caused by heavy rains and an unseasonably late spring, knocked out their lifeline to the South. The vast majority of Yukon's
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Alaska Interior feels pinch of reduced road, ferry tourism
Fairbanks :: AK :: USA | 1 year ago
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The survey commissioned by the Alaska Department of Commerce says of an estimated 1.56 million out-of-state visitors in 2011, only 69,300 were highway and ferry visitors...Overall, the money they spent fell from $111 million to $71 million between
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Just be patient
Green Valley :: AZ :: USA | over 2 years ago
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It may have been built in eight months but it was nothing more than a trail through the woods and only passable by military all-wheel-drive vehicles and in many areas only if they were pulled by bulldozers. The bridges and culverts were no more than
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